All,
I am thinking of going with the following SATA PCI controller (non raid) to replace my 3ware SATA controller (only
using JBOD but thats another story). Any comments on linux support / issues / other controllers you have luck with.
I am planning on using software raid with 3 of these cards and 10 250G WD SATA disks.
Thanks
Jim
PROMISE PCI to SATA Controller Card, Model "SATA150 TX4" -OEM
Model# Sata150 TX4
Item # N82E16816102013
Specifications:
Ports: 4x Serial ATA/150
OS Support: Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP; RedHat 7.3/8.0; SuSE 7.3/8.0
Feature: Bus mastering offloads data I/O handling from host CPU; CRC
error-checking of Serial ATA and Ultra ATA drives for data reliability
during transfers; Data Transfer Rate:150MB/sec with Serial ATA/150 drives,
133MB/sec with Ultra ATA/133 drives, 100MB/sec with Ultra ATA/100 drives;
32-bit 33/66MHz PCI bus; PCI 2.3 compliant
0
If you plan on using software raid it would be a nice idea to use a 2.6.x
kernel in case you are using a 2.4.x kernel.There is a huge speed diff in
data transfer between those 2 kernel versions.
I have installed a couple of s150 tx4 and i can say that they work fine.I
also noticed that there is support for this controller in the low level
driver section(scsi) in 2.4.27 kernel.If this doesnt work out (wich i
doubt it)try downloading the driver from promise.com.
One thing i dont understand is why buy raid controllers and do software
raid(if that is what you ment)
All,
I am thinking of going with the following SATA PCI controller (non raid)
to replace my 3ware SATA controller (only
using JBOD but thats another story). Any comments on linux support /
issues / other controllers you have luck with.
I am planning on using software raid with 3 of these cards and 10 250G WD
SATA disks.
Thanks
Jim
PROMISE PCI to SATA Controller Card, Model "SATA150 TX4" -OEM
Model# Sata150 TX4
Item # N82E16816102013
Specifications:
Ports: 4x Serial ATA/150
OS Support: Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP; RedHat 7.3/8.0; SuSE 7.3/8.0
Feature: Bus mastering offloads data I/O handling from host CPU; CRC
error-checking of Serial ATA and Ultra ATA drives for data reliability
during transfers; Data Transfer Rate:150MB/sec with Serial ATA/150 drives,
133MB/sec with Ultra ATA/133 drives, 100MB/sec with Ultra ATA/100 drives;
32-bit 33/66MHz PCI bus; PCI 2.3 compliant
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I got the 3ware card to do hardware raid at first. The performance we really bad, so I switched to software raid and
while the performance was alot better, it still didn't match other systems I have here that were doing software raid
with older IDT (parallel) disks.
Jim
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From: "Alexander Economou" <redacted>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Sent: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:50:13 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Re: SATA Controller
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If you plan on using software raid it would be a nice idea to use a 2.6.x
kernel in case you are using a 2.4.x kernel.There is a huge speed diff in
data transfer between those 2 kernel versions.
I have installed a couple of s150 tx4 and i can say that they work fine.I
also noticed that there is support for this controller in the low level
driver section(scsi) in 2.4.27 kernel.If this doesnt work out (wich i
doubt it)try downloading the driver from promise.com.
One thing i dont understand is why buy raid controllers and do software
raid(if that is what you ment)
quoted
All,
I am thinking of going with the following SATA PCI controller (non raid)
to replace my 3ware SATA controller (only
using JBOD but thats another story). Any comments on linux support /
issues / other controllers you have luck with.
I am planning on using software raid with 3 of these cards and 10 250G WD
SATA disks.
Thanks
Jim
PROMISE PCI to SATA Controller Card, Model "SATA150 TX4" -OEM
Model# Sata150 TX4
Item # N82E16816102013
Specifications:
Ports: 4x Serial ATA/150
OS Support: Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP; RedHat 7.3/8.0; SuSE 7.3/8.0
Feature: Bus mastering offloads data I/O handling from host CPU; CRC
error-checking of Serial ATA and Ultra ATA drives for data reliability
during transfers; Data Transfer Rate:150MB/sec with Serial ATA/150 drives,
133MB/sec with Ultra ATA/133 drives, 100MB/sec with Ultra ATA/100 drives;
32-bit 33/66MHz PCI bus; PCI 2.3 compliant
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